Description

A whole year of British Values activities for year 7 and 8 pupils

40 of each of the British Values Key Stage 3 books and 14 classroom posters

Democracy in Britain

Chapters include

Individual liberty

A brief history of democracy

Politics

Democracy in the UK

Democracy in Action

Don’t believe everything you read – the media

The Rule of Law in Britain

Chapters include

Playing by the rules

Rules beyond the classroom: the law of the land

Were does religious law fit in?

Separation of Powers

Judicial independence

An introduction to criminal and civil law

The Public Sector in Britain

Chapters include

Introducing the public sector

Calling the emergency services

Refuse collectors

Providing an education for every child

Treating Britain – the NHS

The national safety blanket – social care services

Keeping Britain sae – the arimed forces

Tolerance and Harmony in Britain

Chapters include

Imagine all the people

What’s in a culture

From ancient grudge to multicultural Britain

How does discrimination begin?

Four steps to help challenge discrimination

Religion and tradition

Each book starts with an introduction to criticial thinking skills and contains a series of writing, reading and talking activities for students.

2 copies of each poster

British Values The Rule of Law poster – this poster explains the series of principles or guidelines which help us tell whether our legal system is working correctly or not

British Values Separation of Powers poster – a poster describing how the separation of powers is one of the fundamental principles at the heart of our parliamentary democracy

British Values Democracy in Britain poster – this poster picks out the key elements of our British democracy

British Values Strategy & Progress poster – this poster comes with a pack of stickers. The poster highlights key British Values with space for pupils to add stickers when they’ve Read About, Talked About and Written about them

British Values Classroom poster – a poster showing key messages from our British Values books. The poster supports themes from the books and features images and characters that pupils will see throughout the series

What is Fake News? poster – a poster giving pupils clues on how to spot fake news

HM The Queen poster – a poster designed to celebrate the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest serving monarch

Department of Education Guidance

In November 2014 the Department for Education amended guidance to all schools, both independent and state-maintained through a press release.

Whereas previously schools were required to ‘respect’ British values new guidance made clear that all schools have a duty to “actively promote” British Values. As such every school is required to demonstrate a clear strategy for embedding these values and show how their work has been effective in doing so.

Arguably most importantly, schools were advised that Ofsted and the independent inspectorates would now take the work of schools in this area into account during inspections.

Extract from Department for Education Press Release

The Department for Education has today (27 November 2014) published guidance on promoting British values in schools to ensure young people leave school prepared for life in modern Britain.

“…..Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Schools Lord Nash explained the changes were designed to “tighten up the standards on pupil welfare to improve safeguarding, and the standards on spiritual, moral, social and cultural development of pupils to strengthen the barriers to extremism”.